Common Account for the Commons - France
Description
Translated from the French by DeepSeek:
"Our extensive experience in sustaining the Commons economically has shown us that for a resource (software, garden, place) to be truly upheld as a Common, it is necessary to draw on co-financing from various sources/structures. (At a minimum at the beginning, until the resource has its own legal status).
To make this co-financing possible and transparent, it is necessary to establish a Neutral Third Party, the "Common Fund / Account for the Commons," whose sole purpose is to collect and then redistribute the flow of money intended to fund the resource.
This means that this Neutral Third Party, the "Common Fund":
- has no role to play in the governance of the resources it helps finance,
- cannot assume responsibility for the means-related obligations attached to the funding.
Its role must be strictly limited to receiving funds (Public and Private) and redistributing them as requested by the carriers / stewards / managers of the resource.
To finance this work of collecting funds, redistributing them, and regularly sharing information on the state of the Common's accounts, the Common Fund requests a percentage of the amounts collected. (Or, in the long term, a fixed amount to cover the compensation of the people managing the flows and the fixed costs necessary for management).
This must solely serve to pay for the work of the people in charge of managing the financial flows."
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